from here we'll take the whole notion on what it means to cure. this is a camp at 100 bay point from 1922. this is a much earlier version of 1858, same and close to the area. while we have a lot of information about our material and collection, what we are asking people to do digitally is to ask information. what did the port especially in the bay used to look like. how many times has it changed. we open drawers, we have a vast collection. i opened a drawer the other day. some of you might know the trustees of the association of the port of san francisco but we certainly we have this

little -- we know nothing about it. this is what we'll put online. who are these guys? aren't they great? we have a half a million photographs. they just say port of san francisco 1907. when you come to the gallery you will be taken through a series of experiences that will help you get a sense of the varieties of the environmental history and the natural history and the people's history of the bay. some of our partners including you might know craig crinkle from mayor time. it's a wonderful project. it will be open labor day weekend and about 15 different organizations including the port has put images online at you are the year of the

bay.org and you will be able to see many photographs and talk about the picture or comment on anyone of the thousands of images that are up now as we kind of crowd towards a new relationship with the bay. i hope that you all join us on april 7th. the public event is for the 7th. i hope it's a beautiful day as today. thank you for all you do and all we do to keep the port history alive. i had the honor of editing the text. if it looks funny, are you can blame me. i would be happy to answer any questions. i really appreciate the opportunity. >> thank you. finally i want to remind that our san francisco giants are holding the baseball

classic on 17, 18 and 19th. that conclude my executive directors report? >> thank you. do we have any further comment on the directors report? commissioners, i come here from time to time, and you just heard a presentation which speaks about what i would say not along ago. 10 thousand years ago, we did have people here who traveled our bay waters and where the ship

rights built their buildings. they too were aware of people that preceded them. now, some mention is made of the chinese in a very indirect way. they were here earlier than 1850. i'm here to stress once again whenever we talk about the bay, we have to give some respect to the first people. we just can't begin when some strangers came here, forgetting that the strangers were welcomed by the first people and they turned around and bit the hand that fed them. so when it came at

the beginning for example or whenever they came, their only life and i represent them, i'm not native-american but i represent them, their base closure, infrastructure and of course the bay. we would not have the bay as we know it today had it not been for 3 white women and if you watch pbs, that wonderful documentary. so what i'm saying is do not come into somebody's land, do not enter their living room and rearrange their furniture without their permission. let's be respectful

with honoring our first people. thank you very much. >> thanks for the comment. >> item 8b informational presentation revitalization act related to the multipurpose venue of pierre's 32. >> good afternoon commissioners, special project's manager. i'm here on behalf of the broader pier. we have jennifer matt, deputy director of plan and development, diane is not here nor are some other wd staff and there is city attorneys office.

eileen and council bill white. we are here today to talk to you about proposed legislation by a member phil in relation to the 32 project that deals with the matter pertaining to the public trust. >> so, this legislation ab 1273 was introduced about 10 days ago and i believe today assembly member king is amended what was initially a spot bill and so we wanted to provide both you, the commission and the public background information about this bill. it's a very important component of the multipurpose venue for

proposal for pier's 30, 32. the way in which we obtain public trust consistency determination from the state and there is a variety of ways in which that happens along with the city attorneys office have done a preliminary public trust analysis at the staff level which we'll do today. there is prior legislation in relation to pier 32 and then some next step and we are at the beginning of a fairly lengthy public process related to this legislation. so, we have done detailed presentations in the past, the staff report for this item provides the website location on the port's website to get some of that information if

someone is interested in more detail. but essentially the public trust doctrine exist in common law and a few other areas of state law. the port is really support to use these lands to promote meritime commerce and navigation, fisheries and the common law trust exist through a series of court cases, california court cases up through the california supreme court and california attorney general and the state land commissioner and we have the director of the state land commissioner, jennifer is here and i believe she'll participate in public comment. those three entities, the state lands commission and the attorney general's office and

the california state system has common laws and rules for this state. there is rules in the california public resource code on how agencies like the court manage our property. one of the big rules is that we have to keep revenues from these land separate from the city's general revenues. where the state has handed over title to trust property to local agency like the city and county acting a the port there is a legislative trust grant. in our case in san francisco we have the burden act passed in 1968 and how the port has to manage this property. rules i will go over. the public administer by a

public local agencies. so, there is a range of uses that are generally recognized as being permissible. first these water oriented uses port activities, marina activities, more recently i think there has been an awareness about the need to sort of protect the marine environment so habitat and ancillary or other use of property. if you have cargo operation and you have office space that is associated with that cargo operation that would be considered ancillary use that is permissible and then

you have the publicen enjoyment of public trust lands. in the burton act we manage this property on behalf of the people of california. people can come to the port, stay at a hotel, eat at a restaurant and shop and those are all determined to be consistent with the public trust. so when we do major projects along the water fronts in almost all cases there is an interest in making sure the state greece agrees that what we are proposing is used with public trust. sometimes that's what the authors want to make sure things are appropriate. the major project that we have

built for the land use plan. and in each case we've, with the exception of the cruise terminal have gotten a letter written by the executive officer of the state lands commission. we've gotten commission vote, state land commission itself consist of the state's controller, the lieutenant governor and the governor's director of finances so the commission can vote after hearing it or we pursued state legislation. and where the port has pursued legislation is pier 30-32 and whether venues is appropriate at this sight was the transportation access to the

site. it's within walking distance of all the major regional transportation hubs. of course it's a very walkable site. we have one of the best pedestrian walkways in the city and people would be able to attend the event and walk down the promenade and experience the bay and there are certain water oriented opportunities at this site. pier 30-32 was established in 1912 for sugar import activities. unfortunately there was a fire that destroyed the historic sheds in 1984 that led the deck

as we know them today and they are pretty bad. we know more about this pier probably more than anyone. there was a land lease development proposal for mixed cruise terminal authorized by the state legislation that i was referencing earlier. they after a fully entitled project walked away from the site and we have a real sense about the deterioration of the pier. there is limited truck access to the pie r. it would be

cost-effective. as we know we've had these failed development efforts which is why we think it's important to look at the multipurpose venue project in the context of what has been tried and failed in the past. what would happen with the pier if we did nothing and what we are fearful is that the pier would have to be close. it provides an opportunity and project and funding to be able to address these conditions. so, in the public trust analysis of the current proposal there are really four that we are looking at in the staff analysis, meritime, public access consistent with the requirement, the public

assembly use and consistent with our mission to attracting people to the water front and some ancillary trust issues and we have to look at all these issues together. first, we are looking at a range of meritime uses, the exact meritime program isn't settled yet. but the first and major meritime component is that the fire boats need a new home. they are located at pier 22-and-a-half. they include oil response. the fire department has gone to voters with the emergency safety seismic bonds and they have funding to build the station. the advantage of

30-32 is possess potentially to be able to build a new pier of the three boats they want to operate at this site. we are looking at water oriented transportation, water taxis is what they are trying to promote with the contracts. we have some water taxi landings, up and down the water front and this is a great additional stop. we are in communication with the water transportation authority about whether they would want to serve this side of the east bay. we have the giant ballpark ferry service for giants games and the idea is maybe that's an appropriate way for people to get to this site as well. most importantly, we have a

natural deep water berth on the pier. we have a recent announcement that the warriors are planning on pulling the project to allow for continued occasional cruise use. this would be on days where we have 3 or more cruise ships in. we have our cruise terminal at 27 but this is a place where we have in the past service cruise vessels and would like to continue that service and we also have fleet week and would like to maintain that use. so public access to the bay is an important value that we've been working to plan for. the current proposal would provide 50 percent of public access

which will provide unique advantage points to see the bay. and as we think about the branch project which is supposed to open in june of this year, it's a bit sad that that huge public investment is looking to build a parking lot. this project looks to the open space near the wharf. as i mentioned with bcdc, we are trying to create this network of open spaces along the bay. so the water front public assembly use. and this is probably the core of the analysis. it's the major use that's proposed. the warriors would have a little over 40 basketball games each season at this site but there would be up to 200 events at the site each

year. we think that public assembly use is going to draw people to the site, to the bay. if you think about the explore tore yum project is a very similar public assembly use that is going to draw a whole new population down to that site and we are confident that this event use of this site will have the same effect in south beach. we want to go over some quick examples of similar types of public assembly uses on trust property in california and other examples on water fronts around the world. we think that this is a good frame for the state legislature to view this proposal. so we have the giants ballpark. it was an

approved by the state lands commission on a 25 acre sight. some of the features that made this consistent with the local trust was a low wall providing views to the bay. also a great public access way behind that right field wall that provides gates and free viewing opportunities of giants baseball games. as i mentioned earlier, ferry service, to and from games and this development was part of a broader development that included the marina use right next door. then the santa monica pier, 2 piers, the second was a larger

one built next to it. there was a great interest in having amusement parks on piers. it included a ride and a carousel at the location and what you see here is the ballroom which was a 5,000 capacity ballroom on the west coast which held concerts and dancing. the pier was partially destroyed several times and rebuilt. it's open today as the santa monica amusement pier today. this is the long beach arena. it's part of the broader long beach convention facility. it was

built on fill land from 1928-1932. it was actually built on 1962. it's a basketball facility. it's hosted the olympics in the past. it's got the largest mural in the world featuring marine life. it's not really part of an active water front. this facility is separated from the water by a 6 lane roadway and this lag other lagoon is a man-made lagoon. it's not the water front that we are seeking for 30-32 but very similar to

facilities on tight lands. this is predecessor to the long beach arena long beach auditorium. great architecture at this location. these were used primarily for concerts. the first municipal auditorium ended up collapsing and replaced by the second auditorium that operated in the 1960s and this is more of the kind of architecture and public access that we are seeking at 30-32. interesting comparison of the long beach auditorium which was built on fill on 30-32. you can

see the structures. another component of this multipurpose venue is that the city doesn't have an arena. that it is a component of venues. it's what we see on beachfront properties along san diego and long beach. it is oriented to this public assembly use either performance use or venues use. we know about the opera house. it was a site that hosted some of the olympic activities and designated as a world heritage site in 2007. it's what we think of when we think of sydney. the opera house was opened in

2008. it was designed by snow -- the same firm designed to build 30-32 and a place where people go to enjoy the open space. it's another example of contaminated industrial water fronts repurposed for this kind of public assembly use. in vancouver, you have the convention center with a great public walkway that connects restaurants and hotels along the waters edge. this kind of convention use is sort of meeting that urban design standard that we would hope to meet with 30-32 with the proposed project. this is boston contemporary art which

opened in 2006. a 65,000 square foot building. it's leaning over the boston harbor and it's got cafes and the main anchor to the pier and water front. and finally the copenhagen to denmark. it opened in 2005 and seats up to 2000 people but very similar kind of active public use activating the water front. so finally there are some other trust issues that we hope to accomplish with the project. first the pier itself is self directed. storm water

is direct properly. they are coming up with a storm water design guides and this project is a rare opportunity to provide storm water treatment for the entire pier which will improve better quality water for the project. the project includes up to 200,000 square foot of retail which is predominantly retail uses like restaurants. so moving into legislation, the bryant street pier project with ab 839 to modernize that cruise terminal it authorized substantial amount of non-trust general office space. general office